I'm sorry, but what exactly does this script do? I followed it through. Why have you made it rewrite the whole make.conf? If any inexperienced user runs this script, it will screw up all the apps he/she installs as it rewrites the make.conf which is critical to a Gentoo System._________________Jude Pereira
(http://judepereira.com)

I'm sorry, but what exactly does this script do? I followed it through. Why have you made it rewrite the whole make.conf? If any inexperienced user runs this script, it will screw up all the apps he/she installs as it rewrites the make.conf which is critical to a Gentoo System.

I think he's only copying over the make.conf into the initramfs, so it wouldn't affect what is on a users harddrive. I am a bit confused why there is a make.conf inside an initramfs though, as well as a make.profile. The initramfs only has the job of booting the system, which means stuff like that shouldn't be necessary.

Initramfs is good for transferring binarys from fast to old pc and it also serves as a rescue
system. Embedded (aka empty) profile is perfect for building compact systems since it doesn't
pull in anything. Suppose your CFLAGS on environment with toolchain(gcc): -march=k8.
With --config-root you tell to use new make.conf in work dir1 to build binarys for i486 not k8.

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